| Show II I Science Talks Fun Fun or for Students And Teachers Scientific deduction laser studies and incandescent lamp design They sound like sub subjects sects for high school or college courses but they're familiar concerts concepts to 20 eighth graders in East Cleveland Ohio thanks to of the General Electric Lamp Business Divi sion lion To encourage awareness of the variety of engineering and science career possibilities among minority youth a group headed by Wally Shaw of the Nela Park GE OE Placement Cen Cen- ter scheduled six two-hour two visits to W. W 11 11 H. Kirk Junior High Nigh School According to GE GK News the newspaper for the Lamp l Division a different group member develops the program and leads the session each time helping the students conduct experiments and understand un understand Un scientific dons One man talked about what its it's like to be an engineer lie He also demonstrated some aspects as aspects as as- of the design and development development devel level of the incandescent lamp and then helped students run experiments with materials supplied by the Lamp Division At Al another session an analytical ana chemist talked about be bed S ing log a scientist then helped the children learn leam about light and color through experiments The last session session will be a afield afield afield field trip to the Nela Net Park plant for a hand first-hand look at engineering engineering engi engi- and science in action Mr Shaw reports good re response response reo re- from teachers and stu stud dents lie He knows the childrens children's interest is sparked because asking to take the experiments ex ex- experiments and demon demonstrations demonstrations' into their regular science classrooms classrooms classrooms class class- rooms to share with the other kids kids' |
